Data analysis for precision 21 cm cosmology

A Liu, JR Shaw - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The redshifted 21 cm line is an emerging tool in cosmology, in principle permitting three-
dimensional surveys of our universe that reach unprecedentedly large volumes, previously …

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: 21cm Radiation as a Probe of Physics Across Cosmic Ages

A Liu, L Newburgh, B Saliwanchik, A Slosar - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The 21cm line refers to a forbidden transition in neutral hydrogen associated with alignment
of spins of the proton and electron. It is a very low energy transition that is emitted whenever …

Detection of cosmic structures using the bispectrum phase. II. First results from application to cosmic reionization using the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

N Thyagarajan, CL Carilli, B Nikolic, J Kent, A Mesinger… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Characterizing the epoch of reionization (EoR) at z≳ 6 via the redshifted 21 cm line of
neutral Hydrogen (H i) is critical to modern astrophysics and cosmology, and thus a key …

Status of 21 cm Interferometric Experiments

CM Trott, J Pober - The Cosmic 21-cm Revolution: Charting the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this chapter we discuss the history, progress, challenges and forecasts for detection and
exploration of the spatial structure of the 21-cm brightness temperature signal in the Epoch …

A flexible method for estimating luminosity functions via Kernel Density Estimation

Z Yuan, MJ Jarvis, J Wang - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a flexible method for estimating luminosity functions (LFs) based on kernel
density estimation (KDE), the most popular nonparametric density estimation approach …

Two-point statistics without bins: A continuous-function generalization of the correlation function estimator for large-scale structure

K Storey-Fisher, DW Hogg - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The two-point correlation function (2pcf) is the key statistic in structure formation; it measures
the clustering of galaxies or other density field tracers. Estimators of the 2pcf, including the …

Statistical Methods for Extracting Cosmological Information in the Presence of Foreground Contaminants

L McBride - 2023 - search.proquest.com
High redshift observations of both the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxy
surveys have sharpened our understanding of the early stages of our universe. However …

[PDF][PDF] Probing the Epoch of Reionisation with the MWA

CH Jordan, CM Trott, C Lynch, JLB Line - pos.sissa.it
The Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is a period of cosmological time in which the first stars and
galaxies were formed and began to ionise the surrounding neutral intergalactic medium …